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Aquinas Study From our study of

Posted on August 22, 2008
Aquinas Study From our study of the Summa last night, in Question 87, article 4, reply to Objection 2 there is this gem: The "good" and the "true" which are the objects of the will and of the intellect, differ logically, but one is contained in the other, as we have said above (82, 4, ad 1; 16, 4, ad 1); for the true is good and the good is true...

Obama and the value of life

Posted on August 21, 2008
Obama and the value of life Incredible.

Obama, the Democrat Platform and

Posted on August 20, 2008
Obama, the Democrat Platform and Abortion The Wall Street Journal's Naomi Schaefer Riley has this post-mortem on Obama's performance before the evangelicals at Saddleback Church: Mr. Obama's flip-sounding response did not go over well with the evangelicals in the audience of Saturday night's presidential forum...

An X-File This article points

Posted on August 20, 2008
An X-File This article points out the eery similarity between the recent beheading/alleged cannibalization of a Greyhound driver to the "Wendigo phenomenon": Vince Weiguang Li is accused of abruptly attacking McLean, who by all accounts he didn't even know -- while McLean slept on the bus...

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An exception to the "let's film

Posted on August 20, 2008
An exception to the "let's film every last thing written by Philip K. Dick" rule Hollywood is bringing Robert Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag" to the screen. That could be good or bad, depending on how much the story gets butchered...

And now for something completely

Posted on August 18, 2008
And now for something completely different Imperial fleet over San Francisco. [Via Ghost of a Flea.]

First Amendment News This is the

Posted on August 18, 2008
First Amendment News This is the The California Supreme Court's decision in North Coast Women's Care Group v. Superior Court. The court sums up its holding as follows: Do the rights of religious freedom and free speech, as guaranteed in both the federal and the California Constitutions, exempt a medical clinic?s physicians from complying with the California Unruh Civil Rights Act?s prohibition

People hearing the debate by radio

Posted on August 18, 2008
People hearing the debate by radio beleived that Nixon had won. Sometimes the real effect of a speech or a presentation is appreciated only later. I was impressed by McCain's presentation at the Saddleback Forum - and I"m not a particularly avid McCain supporter - and I was unimpressed by Obama...

Rick Warren on Obama's "above my

Posted on August 18, 2008
Rick Warren on Obama's "above my pay grade" answer From Beliefnet: When you asked Obama about when life begins, he punted, saying 'it's above my pay grade.' Should someone running for the highest office in the land have a clear answer to that, or is that kind of ambivalence acceptable? No...

Can't stop time Madonna turned

Posted on August 18, 2008
Can't stop time Madonna turned 50 on Saturday. I turn 49 today. The State of Hawaii turns 49 on Thursday. Damn, we all started out with such great potential.

Justice Thomas was not exper....strong

Posted on August 17, 2008
Justice Thomas was not exper....strong enough Obama definitely wants to stay away from any discussion of experience.

Classic Science Fiction Here is

Posted on August 17, 2008
Classic Science Fiction Here is a list of classic "Amazing" stories, some of which have links that let you download the story. Good memories.

Empty Suit Alert According to

Posted on August 17, 2008
Empty Suit Alert According to Obama, the issue of protecting the unborn is "Above my pay-grade." ???? He wants to be President...who has a higher pay grade than that? [Via Southern Appeal]

And now for something completely

Posted on August 16, 2008
And now for something completely different. I think that going after televangelists is like going after low hanging fruit or fishing with dynamite. It's just way too easy. But it's easy for reason, and here is a video that does a good job of it. And, hey, want to spice up your ministry? How about raising the dead?!?!!! This video - particularly the weird enthusiasm of the main speaker,

"With a grateful tip of the hat

Posted on August 14, 2008
"With a grateful tip of the hat Mr. Bowers from an American born in the wrong place." Canadian blogger Ghost of a Flea offers this reminder that "America is not a place": Ghost of a Flea also offers this perspective on the Georgian conflict to those of us who often forget what America means to Americans of all nations: On the contrary, fundamental American interests are at stake...

Abortion in New York High abortion

Posted on August 13, 2008
Abortion in New York High abortion rate worries NY experts: Higher cost and health complications lead to concerns How did that headline get past the media filters? From the article in Crain's New York Business: In most of the United States, 24 abortions are carried out for every 100 live births...

The Leftist commitment to free

Posted on August 12, 2008
The Leftist commitment to free speech is like the Leftist commitment to tolerance.... ...purely a matter of strategy. According to the Washington D.C. Examiner: WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Tom Matzzie is mailing threatening letters this week to nearly 10,000 people with whom the liberal political operative vigorously disagrees...

Flew on Dawkins The former leading

Posted on August 12, 2008
Flew on Dawkins The former leading "Old Atheist" says about the current leading "New Atheist" the following: The God Delusion by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for having achieved some sort of record by selling over a million copies...

Case Note I was going to file

Posted on August 12, 2008
Case Note I was going to file this one under "if only unpaid Pentacostal pastors could get married", but there are some interesting evidentiary issues in People v. Mario Antonio Bautista. Bautista was an unpaid Pentecostal pastor and leader of an independent Pentecostal church in San Jose...

Please, Lord, let the 60's end

Posted on August 11, 2008
Please, Lord, let the 60's end sometime in my lifetime. Obama is definitely a "Herbert"! Mark Shea - who still has me banned from his comments - makes an important cultural connection between Star Trek's "space hippies": And Obama's "Sign of the Circle": I am sure that it is not important that this latest bit of overwheening Obama symbolism is being put out by a group that calls itself "

Spiritual Battle Something that

Posted on August 11, 2008
Spiritual Battle Something that my partner and I see in our church-property litigation is the odd way in which the theologically liberal, uber-tolerant hierarchies literally demonize the conservative local churches who insist on holding to moral and faith positions that were mainstream not less than a decade ago...

In case you're wondering where

Posted on August 11, 2008
In case you're wondering where South Ossetia is Stratfor has a page on the tactical situation. Vox Day's analysis is interesting - Russia is playing by "Clinton rules" whereby a Great Power may intervene to enforce the secession of an oppressed portion of another country...

Snow in August Ozzie blogger David

Posted on August 10, 2008
Snow in August Ozzie blogger David Schutz left Mass today and walked into a snow storm. That sounds really good in light of the fact that the temperature today in Fresno should hit 105 degrees.

Ignorance and Bigotry When I was

Posted on August 10, 2008
Ignorance and Bigotry When I was a youth, it was commonplace to link bigotry with ignorance. We were taught that racial bigotry came from ignorance of other people. That linkage probably did more to isolate and undermine the culture of explicit racial bigotry than any law or court opinion...

Compare and Contrast You will

Posted on August 09, 2008
Compare and Contrast You will not reading a book that has been described as: The novel is a luridly written amalgam of bodice-ripper and historical fiction centred on Aisha, the favourite wife of the prophet Muhammad. "Married at nine to the much-older Muhammad, Aisha uses her wits, her courage, and her sword to defend her first-wife status even as Muhammad marries again and again, taking 12

Proving the rule that pastors and/or

Posted on August 07, 2008
Proving the rule that pastors and/or their wives get one free murder. Dr. Helen notes that Mary Winkler received custody of her victim's children: Killer Mary Winkler gets her kids back. I have no words to describe how unfair the justice system is towards men who are slaughtered by their wives...

You already know who is #1 Top

Posted on August 06, 2008
You already know who is #1 Top 50 Hottest Sci-fi Girls. Cool. Argue among yourselves if they got the top ten right. Personally, I think that Ellen Ripley deserved to be in the top 10. Plus, as an added feature, here is some dating advice from three "dating gurus", so if you ever have a shot at 7 of 9 you won't blow it...

Conversion Stories Gypsy Scholar

Posted on August 03, 2008
Conversion Stories Gypsy Scholar has a post on Masab Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader, who has converted to Christianity. From the news article: I used to travel to the Ramallah hills, to places like the Al Tira neighborhood, and to sit there quietly with the amazing landscape and read the Bible...

The Compassion of Medical Euthanasia

Posted on August 02, 2008
The Compassion of Medical Euthanasia means "hop on that ice flow" I posted back in June about how Oregon had told a cancer patient named Barbara Wagner that while it would not cover her cancer treatment, it would pay for her to kill herself. In a letter...

"History is a set of lies agreed

Posted on August 01, 2008
"History is a set of lies agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte All history before 1000 A.D. has been faked according to Anatoly Fomenko. Professor(!!!) Fomenko's thesis is that what we now know as "accepted history" was forged in the 15th Century and re-arranged into the conventional chronology that we now accept in the same way that we accept the idea of gravity...

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